Treasury Of Scripture Knowledge
And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote
A. M. 3482. B.C. 522. Artaxerxes. This Artaxerxes was one of the Magi, who usurped the throne after the death of Cambyses, for seven months, feigning himself to be Smerdis, brother of Cambyses: he is called Oropoestus by Justin, Smerdis by Herodotus, Mardus by AEschylus, and Sphendatates by Ctesias
Bishlam: Ezra 4:9 | Ezra 4:17 | Ezra 5:6
the Syrian tongue: 2 Kings 18:26 | Ezra 4:9 | Ezra 4:17 | Ezra 5:6 | Isaiah 36:11 | Daniel 2:4